Quattor Monthly Meeting - 1/7/10

Table of Contents

1. Actions since last meeting
2. Actions for the summer
3. A0B

Actions since last meeting

New SPMA (Victor)

• Work progressed but not yet committed because of machine moving.
• Plan to commit work (new schema/component) for testing in the next few weeks

Monitoring templates (Stuart)

• Looked at modifications compared with standard templates in trunk : very few modifications, fairly easy to merge
• Next step : NIKHEF try to merge their mods into the trunk during the summer (Ronald)

PAN compiler:

• Idented XML: would be great to have it optional, no real preference about the default
• Tested by David without problem on the Irish configuration

MS/SixSq about release of new components: no progress yet

• QRC not yet in the repository
• Working on managing network switches, probably with QRC

Maaven evaluation: no feedback

Wiki content review: convert to actions!

• Look at formatting issues (heading in particular) in pages imported from MediaWiki

Quattor licensing: check potential issue with perl-LC which may be GPL-licensed

perl-LC upgrade: Ronald had problem, will update Savanah ticket opened by Luis

• What about a new version of Quattor core component distribution?

Actions for the summer

• New SPMA (Victor)
• Monitoring: NIKHEF merge (Ronald)
• Wiki update: follow-up by email
• Quattor licensing (Michel)
• Quattor packaging (Nick)
• Maaven evaluation (Cal/Eli)

A0B

SourceForge export control: currently a few countries blocked from downloading, based on US export-related regulations

• Lets wait for users from these countries to complain about this restriction before rediscussing it

Next meeting: 2/9/10